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id-chalmers
Mentor
11 years ago

freemarker error handling in rest api

I'm using the rest api (which is great, thanks!) to create a custom component, pulling recently solved messages from a large number of boards on my community. The rest call references boards by id, a...
  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    11 years ago

    Hi id-chalmers 

     

    have you tried with the attempt / recover freemarker directive?

     

    <#attempt>
<#assign board = rest("boards/id/iDoNotExist").board />
<#recover>
Something went wrong
</#attempt>

     

    Hope it helps

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PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)

Hi id-chalmers 

 

have you tried with the attempt / recover freemarker directive?

 

<#attempt>
<#assign board = rest("boards/id/iDoNotExist").board />
<#recover>
Something went wrong
</#attempt>

 

Hope it helps

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id-chalmers
Mentor
11 years ago

that did it, thanks!